He is highly civil to our nation ; but there is one point in which he does not do us justice ; I am the more solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste we can call our own; the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure, I... Essays and Criticisms - Page 265by Thomas Gray - 1911 - 378 pagesFull view - About this book
| Fitzedward Hall - 1873 - 430 pages
...a stranger to his prodigious skill in the traveller's talent ?" Foote, The Liar, Act 2, Scene 1. " I am the more solicitous about it, because it relates...of pleasure, — I mean, our skill in gardening." Gray, Works, Vol. 4, p. 21. " You are a lawyer, sir, and know better than I do, upon what particular... | |
| Thomas Meehan - 1883 - 412 pages
...about which the English poet Grey, said, " Our skill in gardening, or rather laying out grounds, is the only taste we can call our own, the only proof of original talent in the matters of pleasure." This English poet certainly was a truthful man. Thus it... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 pages
...was nothing in Europe like it": he adds that " our skill in gardening and laying out grounds " is " the only taste we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure." " Neither Italy nor France have ever had the least notion of it, nor yet do at all comprehend it, when... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 480 pages
...that " our skill in gardening and laying out grounds " is " the only * Letter to Howe, September 1o. taste we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure." "Neither Italy nor France have ever had the least notion of it, nor yet do at all comprehend it, when... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 488 pages
...Anecdotes of Gardening! 2 II E (Count Algarotti) is highly civil to our nation, but there is THOMAS * *• one little point, in which he does not do us justice....solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste which we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure j I mean, our... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 474 pages
...'Anecdotes of Gardening.' 2 ME (Count Algarotti) is highly civil to our nation, but there is THOMAS *^ one little point, in which he does not do us justice....solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste which we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure ; I mean, our... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 508 pages
...'Anecdotes of Gardening' 2 IT E (Count Algarotti) is highly civil to our nation, but there is THOMAS * * one little point, in which he does not do us justice....solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste which we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure ; I mean, our... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 480 pages
...to our nation, but there is THOMAS *~* one little point, in which he does not do us justice. I am (J the more solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste which we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure ; I mean, our... | |
| Albert Forbes Sieveking - 1899 - 472 pages
...nation, but there is THOMAS one little point, in which he does not do us justice. I am £!,$., -7,j the more solicitous about it, because it relates to the only taste which we can call our own, the only proof of our original talent in matter of pleasure ; I mean, our... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1912 - 482 pages
...this address is not in the transcript in the British Museum; and is otherwise open to suspicion. CCLV. To William Taylor Howe. Cambridge, September 10, 1763....pleasure; I mean, our skill in gardening, and laying out grounds.3 That the Chinese have this beautiful art in high perfection, seems very probable from the... | |
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